Vladimir_Nesov comments on Reason is not the only means of overcoming bias - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 10 September 2010 05:56:45PM *  7 points [-]

Reason is not the only means of overcoming bias.
Sometimes the best way to overcome bias is through an emotional appeal.

You still use reason to decide that a given intervention (which doesn't necessarily have a form of a rational argument) is the correct thing to try in order to attain your goals. Obviously, rational argument is a very special kind of intervention, and one can make use of any number of environmental parameters in order to tweak one's mind.